# Lemmings.ts: rebuilding Lemmings for the browser

> Lemmings.ts recreates Lemmings as a TypeScript browser game that reads original Lemmings, Oh No! More Lemmings and Holiday Lemmings data files. Its game code includes level and graphics readers and interprets adlib.dat music through an Adlib emulator. The source lists gameplay fixes and touch support as unfinished.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/tomsoftware/Lemmings.ts>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/tomsoftware/Lemmings.ts/blob/10c7c8b9167258503d02589cf048e2d83a43dd0a/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/lemmings-ts-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/lemmings-ts-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/lemmings-ts-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Provide original Lemmings, Oh No! More Lemmings and Holiday Lemmings data files in the matching run/version directories.
- **Prerequisites:** Build the Vue application with Node.js and npm.
- **Limits:** Gameplay fixes and touch support remain on the task list.
- **License:** MIT.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/tomsoftware/Lemmings.ts/blob/10c7c8b9167258503d02589cf048e2d83a43dd0a/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/tomsoftware/Lemmings.ts/blob/10c7c8b9167258503d02589cf048e2d83a43dd0a/public/data/README.md>

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